The pioneer of "literary anthropology," Wolfgang Iser presents a wide-ranging and comprehensive exploration of this new field in an attempt to explain the human need for the "particular form of make-believe" known as literature. Ranging from the Renaissance pastoral to Coleridge to Sartre and Beckett, The Fictive and the Imaginary is a distinguished work of scholarship from one of Europe's most respected and influential critics.
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Superb in its analysis of many scholarly sources.
(Carole J. Lambert Southern Humanities Review )Iser is an influential figure, and aficionados will welcome the comprehensive exposition he provides here.
(Terence Cave Times Literary Supplement )A new book by Wolfgang Iser is an important event in the critical world. This one, with its wide-ranging and ambitious argument, will require the attention of everyone who thinks seriously and at all philosophically about literary culture and what it has to tell us about being human.
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"A new book by Wolfgang Iser is an important event in the critical world. This one, with its wide-ranging and ambitious argument, will require the attention of everyone who thinks seriously and at all philosophically about literary culture and what it has to tell us about being human." -- Ross Chambers, University of Michigan
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It has long been a commonplace that literary texts are by definition fictional. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dual countering, literary fictionality, interplay between the fictive, basic play movement, projected supplement, aleatory rule, tilting game, ideating act, ternary sign system, fictionalizing act, semantic enclosures, fiction thematized, split signifier, imaginary manifests, ego rhythm, instrumental play, figural schema, imitative component, radical imaginary, doubling structure, sociohistorical world, evidential experiences, transcendental stance, imaginary significations, decentered position Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Colin Clout, Sidney's Arcadia, Golden Age, Fifth Idyll, Virgil's Eclogues, Idols of the Cave, Idols of the Marketplace, Jeremy Bentham, Middle Ages, Sannazaro's Arcadia, Idols of the Theater, Queen Elizabeth, The Basilius New!
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It has long been a commonplace that literary texts are by definition fictional. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dual countering, literary fictionality, interplay between the fictive, basic play movement, projected supplement, aleatory rule, tilting game, ideating act, ternary sign system, fictionalizing act, semantic enclosures, fiction thematized, split signifier, imaginary manifests, ego rhythm, instrumental play, figural schema, imitative component, radical imaginary, doubling structure, sociohistorical world, evidential experiences, transcendental stance, imaginary significations, decentered position Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Colin Clout, Sidney's Arcadia, Golden Age, Fifth Idyll, Virgil's Eclogues, Idols of the Cave, Idols of the Marketplace, Jeremy Bentham, Middle Ages, Sannazaro's Arcadia, Idols of the Theater, Queen Elizabeth, The Basilius New!
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- Ways of Worldmaking by Nelson Goodman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Biographia Literaria by Taylor Samuel Coleridge on page 186, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Biographia Literaria: The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life & Opinions (v. 7) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on page 186, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Place of Literature in Theory Today by Michael P. Clark on page 178, and Back Matter
- Literature, Modernism and Myth: Belief and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century by Michael Bell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Literature and Legal Discourse: Equity and Ethics from Sterne to Conrad by Dieter Paul Polloczek in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology) by Carole E. Newlands on page 7, and page 240
- Victorian Renovations of the Novel: Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Suzanne Keen on page 191, and page 226
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